TASH SULTANA SHARES COLLAB TRACK WITH CITY AND COLOUR “AIN’T IT KINDA FUNNY” | RETURN TO THE ROOTS EP OUT MAY 30 LONELY LANDS RECORDS TASH SULTANA has joined forces with City and Colour for a special collaboration: “Ain’t [...]
MELØ – “I DON’T SPEAK FRENCH” A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE Canadian alternative artist and pop polymath MELØ smashes genre lines with Architects of Revolution, a concept album that follows a time traveler deep into [...]
KURT SWINGHAMMER & MAURY LAFOY (THE COCKTAIL TWINS) @ SOGROVE CONCERT SERIES, TORONTO APRIL 30, 2025 Multi-disciplinary artist Kurt Swinghammer, and collaborator Maury LaFoy, recently presented Swinghammer’s 2011 album Turpentine Wind in its [...]
TENNIS SHARE VIDEO FOR “AT THE APARTMENT” (LIVE AT THE APARTMENT) OFF OF FINAL ALBUM FACE DOWN IN THE GARDEN | TOUR DATES MUTUALLY DETRIMENTA After last week releasing their final studio album Face Down In The Garden, acclaimed indie-pop [...]
DAN MANGAN FINDS REFUGE IN “DIMINISHING RETURNS” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM NATURAL LIGHT ON ARTS & CRAFTS FULL CANADIAN TOUR DATES Today, Dan Mangan shares “Diminishing Returns”, a tender reckoning with the end of the world as we once [...]
JUSTICE “AFTERIMAGE” REMIX EP OUT NOW ED BANGER RECORDS/BECAUSE MUSIC Justice have released an EP for their single “Afterimage” featuring remixes by Jersey, Laurence Guy, Paranoid London, as well their own remix and the original [...]
SPILL CONTEST WIN A MEET-AND-GREET PACKAGE TO SEE ALESSIA CARA AT ROY THOMSON HALL ON MAY 15! CONTEST ENDED WINNER WILL RECEIVE: • ONE PREMIUM RESERVED TICKET • VIP EARLY ENTRY INTO THE VENUE • LOVE & HYPERBOLE TOUR MERCH BAG (WHICH [...]
THIS IS HOW THE FUTURE SOUNDS A CONVERSATION WITH INGE LAMBOO Inge Lamboo is a young, talented, and brilliant artist who utilises social media to get her music out there and noticed. And she has accomplished a great deal in her career already. [...]
YOU’RE ABOUT TO GO ON A SONIC ODYSSEY A CONVERSATION WITH TIM NORDWIND OF OK GO It has been a long time since we OK Go has released an album. And The Adjacent Possible is their first album in over a decade, with their last being 2014’s Hungry [...]
LAURA REZNEK THE SEWING ROOM INDEPENDENT Laura Reznek moved from her native British Columbia to Britain, but judging by her latest album The Sewing Room, that didn’t seem to have made much influence on her sticking to her best musical [...]
THE CHRIS ROLLING SQUAD DAMN YOU ALL TO…HELL CIMEX RECORDS/GHOST HIGHWAY RECORDINGS An absolute pleasure to my earholes, this album is a true earworm, weaving its way in and out of my brain. The Chris Rolling Squad’s Damn You All To…Hell [...]
METALLICA M72 WORLD TOUR @ ROGERS CENTRE, TORONTO APRIL 24, 2025 When it comes to stadium rock shows, NO ONE does it better than Metallica. After all, they’ve been headlining this circuit for 35-plus years. It’s clear the new generation of [...]
WILLIE NELSON OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD LEGACY RECORDINGS The iconic Willie Nelson, a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer and 14-time GRAMMY® winner has released, Oh What A Beautiful World. This marks his 77th solo studio project and the 154th in total, [...]
HAREM SCAREM CHASING EUPHORIA FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL Canada’s Harem Scarem has been making records since 1991 and has built up a substantial audience over the years. Chasing Euphoria is their 16th album and the first since 2020’s Chase The World. [...]
MONK DARK SIDE OF THE MIND DINE ALONE RECORDS/TARANTULA TAPES Self-described as west coast Zen hardcore, Monk has returned with Dark Side Of The Mind. Not only does this mark the band’s first release since 2023’s Rock, but it is also their [...]
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN FLY LIKE AN EGO ISADORA RECORDS Hawksley Workman’s newest release, the six-song EP Fly Like An Ego, is a continuation of the wonderfully creative and eclectic world of Hawksley Workman. Produced by Workman’s frequent [...]
IT’S TIME TO DO RIGHT, WORDS CANNOT BE WISER A CONVERSATION WITH ROINE STOLT OF THE FLOWER KINGS Roine Stolt is a rock legend in Sweden (where he is from) and all over the world. Whether he is performing as a solo artist, or as a member of [...]
BRONCHO NATURAL PLEASURE BRONCHO WORLDWIDE Indie rock darlings Broncho finally have a new album, Natural Pleasure. This is their first album since 2018’s Bad Behavior in which the band incorporated more pop elements into the mix. Yet again, [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS GOING OUT OF MY HEAD: ADVENTURES ON THE INDIE DANCEFLOOR 1995-1999 CHERRY RED RECORDS Each decade has several dominating genres that flood a dance floor, and it was no different in the 1990s. The difference in the late 1990s was [...]
DOMI HAWKEN WATER AND THE WINE INDEPENDENT The term ‘mash-up’ is used far too often and not always correctly. In the case of Domi Hawken, there really is no other term to describe her own brand of music. There are elements of punk, hard rock, [...]
SIMPLE MINDS LIVE IN THE CITY OF DIAMONDS BMG Simple Minds is a band that enjoys what it does. They have established themselves as a classic band and still they continue to release new (and brilliant music) and they tour relentlessly. Simple [...]
THE BLUE KNOTS BECOMING NOISE INDEPENDENT Danielle Stech-Homsy might not be a big fan of social media (many won’t blame her), but she is not exactly a newcomer. As Rio en Medio, she previously made a bit of a name for herself with music [...]
PEARL HARBOR & THE EXPLOSIONS PEARL HARBOR & THE EXPLOSIONS LIBERATION HALL/MVD Pearl Harbor & The Explosions may have been part of the punk movement in San Francisco, but they were never really punk. By 1980, Pearl Harbor and The [...]
SALVIA – “YOU AND ME” | GOTHIC INDIE GETS A DREAMY, SHOEGAZE TWIST MAYWAY RECORDS On her second single “You and Me”, Nicole Selivan keeps exploring dark wave and gothic indie, while injecting this love song with [...]
